Example sentences of "[noun sg] but it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an uninspiring village but it has a railway station , so it 's a convenient place to begin . |
| 2 | It was sold as the fulfilment of a dream but it became a nightmare for many . |
| 3 | Speculating like this was always a pointless exercise but it occupied a portion of any day . |
| 4 | Brian 's got the prototype but it needs a lot of testing still . ’ |
| 5 | The introduction of the card was a further extension of that aim but it required the establishment of a network of businesses which would accept the cards and provide a service to the cardmember . |
| 6 | He laughs at this scenario but it carries the ring of truth . |
| 7 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 8 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 9 | No. 17 is a somewhat similar division but it contains a Tweddle press for shaping steel panel plates , and also deals with steel flooring , vestibule steel-work , and other miscellaneous work , while repairs are also undertaken here . |
| 10 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 11 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 12 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 13 | The GCC was not originally intended as a military security organisation but it created the framework for non-bloc security cooperation which in principle meant rejecting both Western offers of military protection and the Soviet scheme for an international conference to transform the Gulf into a neutral zone . |
| 14 | It was a strange misdemeanour but it launched The Doc on a career of unparalleled misbehaviour , which included regular confrontations with the footballing authorities and inevitable conflict with the law . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 16 | When this matter was discussed at housing committee , I believe it 's only last week but it seems a lot longer ago , I spoke at some length about the errors and fallacies in the report arguing against a case that officers have put forward , pointing out mistakes and erroneous conclusions that seem to have been drawn from some very flimsy evidence . |
| 17 | It is possible to remove the interior bulkhead but it supports the sides of the body and its removal weakens the structure . |
| 18 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
| 19 | It is the most liquid asset but it earns no interest , instead handling and storage costs are incurred . |
| 20 | It nearly caused a diplomatic incident but it had the effect of making the magistrate agree that the recording should go to London . |
| 21 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 22 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 23 | Like every other intelligence agency the NSA is very good at giving politicians what they want to hear in peacetime but it has no wartime experience at all . |
| 24 | This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose . |
| 25 | This is not a full list but it shows the extent and solidity of Europe 's direct political control . |
| 26 | Knee-high to a gnat but it made no difference . |
| 27 | It was some such very similar situation but it involved a lot more money than you 've lost . |
| 28 | In these cases the society not only fixes and receives the fee payable for the report but it retains the fee for itself . |
| 29 | The section exists elsewhere in separate form but it has a propriety at this point , stressing that the dynamic shaping inherent in the process Rolle describes is a property of God and a divine gift ; and it leads into the final summarising chapter focused on active and contemplative life . |
| 30 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |